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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Gossiping"”.
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Secure gossiping techniques and components
Gossip protocols have proved to be a viable solution to set-up and manage largescale P2P services or applications in a fully decentralised scenario. The gossip or epidemic communication scheme is heavily based on stochastic behaviors and it is the fundamental idea behind many large-scale P2P …
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GOssiping Optimization Framework (GOOF): A decentralized P2P architecture for function optimization
… a decentralized P2P network of solvers. Our †̃GOssiping Optimization Frameworkâ€TM (GOOF) bridges the gap between P2P services that can provide large reliable networks of interconnected nodes and the needs of optimization practitioners who are often not able to find a reasonably simple way to …
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Plutus : measuring message gossiping in P2P networks and providing incentives in cryptocurrencies
In this thesis, we present Plutus, an efficient and game-theoretically proven incentive mechanism for Algorand, a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency. In order to operate, Algorand requires users to constantly propagate messages but has no mechanism to incentivize users to do so. Plutus solves this …
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The Market
… FISHERMAN YELLING, VENDORS BARTERING, AND PEOPLE GOSSIPING WAS INVIGORATING. THE SOCIAL VIBRANCE AND COMMUNITY NETWORK OF HISTORIC MARKETS HAS LARGELY BEEN LOST DUE TO THE CONVIENCE AND CAPITALISTIC MINDSET OF SUPERMARKETS. THIS THESIS IS AN EXPLORATION OF THE OPPORTUNITY ARCHITECTURE HAS IN …
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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey : the education of Catherine Morland.
… the various realms of walking, carriage riding, gossiping, dancing, and marrying, shows her achieving an education which discloses both literal and symbolic meanings behind these public activities. Third, a consideration of Catherine's intellectual education brings to the fore the importance of …
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Some combinational optimization problems on radio network communication and machine scheduling
… of distributed broadcasting and distributed gossiping is studied in the setting of random networks. Two different models are considered: one is random geometric networks, the main model used to study properties of sensor and ad-hoc networks, where ri points are randomly placed in a unit …
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Quant Se Depart Li Jolis Tans: Betrayal In The Songs Of Medieval French Women
… societal betrayal most often occurs when gossiping neighbors and townspeople seek to destroy the joy of the lovers by revealing their relationship to others. Because we have so few documents from the thirteenth and fourteenth century it is difficult to have a solid understanding of the …
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GOSSIP AS SOCIAL EXCHANGE IN NETWORKS
… relationships do not prevent individuals from gossiping about those with whom they must cooperate. These results suggest that gossip can be used as a social bonding and control mechanisms in small groups. Similarly, we found that individuals are less likely to gossip about those with whom they …
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Perceptions of office gossip amongst diverse groups in the workplace
… training could prevent different cultures gossiping about one another. Originality– This paper makes a contribution to the literature on gossip in organisations, as there is little known research in South Africa or elsewhere that explores the diverse perceptions of office gossip among …
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The effects of viewing indirect aggression on television
… aggressor uses a variety of techniques including gossiping, spreading rumours, and back-biting to hurt another person. This thesis consists of 5 studies, which examined indirect aggression in the media. Study 1 examined the perception of these forms of aggression in adolescents' social …
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Semantic and pragmatic analysis of selected Namwanga personal names.
… religious beliefs, unity, hatred, displeasure, gossiping, clan, surnames, special names and many others. Namwanga names have semantic and pragmatic meaning that can only be known by the name-giver or the context in which they are given and through naming one is able to perform certain functions …
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The Purpose and Types of Organizational Gossip
… What are the motivations of the sender for gossiping? Is there a personal or financially driven envy as an explanation for negative gossip? Is perceived fairness and cooperation influencing gossip dynamics within an organization? Does gossip only circulate between the sender and receiver …
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Tecniche di Machine Learning per Applicazione in Reti prive di Infrastruttura
… Learning è studiata e combinata con il gossiping del modello per fornire operazioni di efficienza energetica. Inoltre, viene introdotto un approccio di rete definito dal software per le reti di sensori wireless con data mule. Un semplice algoritmo di apprendimento automatico è …
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Trust Management for P2P application in Delay Tolerant Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. An Investigation into the development of a Trust Management Framework for Peer to Peer File Sharing Applications in Delay Tolerant Disconnected Mobile Ad-hoc Networks.
… of ORP is compared with a similar autonomous gossiping (A/G) protocol using simulations. This work also presents a framework for trust management based on dynamicity aware graph re-labelling system (DA-GRS) for trust management in mobile P2P applications. The DA-GRS uses a distributed …
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The Nature and Prevalence of Violent Behaviour in High Schools: A Case of Selected High Schools in Masaiti and Ndola Districts in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia
… and name calling, fighting, quarrelling and gossiping, vandalism of school property, and bullying were the most prevalent types of violent behaviour among pupils in High Schools. However, insulting and name calling was the highest frequent violent behaviour reported by lOl pupils (87.1%) and …
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Trust models for mobile content-sharing applications
… to check the integrity of those tables through a gossiping protocol. 3. An algorithm that arranges recommendations in a “Web of Trust” and that makes predictions of trustworthiness that are more accurate than existing approaches by using graph-based learning. 4. An algorithm that learns the …
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Men, masculinities and HIV care work: A small-scale, exploratory study of the role of community care workers in supporting HIV positive men's health-seeking behaviour
… intimate health information and a fear of women gossiping. Drawing on current literature on men, caring and gender transformation to inform the analysis of participant perspectives and experiences, this study explores the barriers to encouraging men to seek health and also considers the …
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Consensus Algorithms for Estimation and Discrete Averaging in Networked Control Systems
… neighboring agents, thus resembling the act of "gossiping" in a crowd of people. In this thesis several algorithms based on gossip that solve the consensus and other related problems are presented. In the �first part, several solutions to the consensus problem based on gossip under different sets …
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Time, Self, and the Other in a Rural Chinese Township
… with the other – feasting, gambling, singing, gossiping, etc. – key ingredients of what locals refer to as ‘the Sichuan life of enjoyment’. Synchrony is one way of resolving existential ‘thrownness’: self and other ascertain their equivalence before time through full sensory engagement in …
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Probabilistic methods for distributed information dissemination
… forwarding information to all their neighbors, gossiping nodes forward information only to a small number of (random) neighbors. We show that, when done right, gossip disperses information almost as quickly as flooding, albeit with a drastically reduced communication overhead. Random linear …